Among those receiving commutations was Philip Esformes, a Miami nursing home executive who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year for paying bribes and receiving kickbacks in a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. The White House announcement notedthat “Esformes, who is 52, has been devoted to prayer and repentance and is in declining health.”
Trumprailed against the new COVID relief bill last night in a video from the White House, specifically slamming foreign aid inclusions, which are actually part of the separate omnibus spending bill. “$85.5 million for assistance to Cambodia, $134 million to Burma, $1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian military, which will go out and buy almost exclusively Russian military equipment,” the president charged.